Advance praise for State of the Wild 2008–2009
"This book delivers much more than the 'state of the wild.' It identifies the trends, trajectories, and principles that must organize our thinking. Think of it as an information handbook for the coming rumble over life on Earth. It's much less about what is—and much more about what's coming at us."
—Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean, Voyage of the Turtle, and contributor to the 2006-2007 edition of State of the Wild
Featured Essays
Introduction: Future States of the Wild
Dr. Kent H. Redford, series editor and WCS Vice President for conservation strategy, points to the importance of remembering the ecological richness of our past so that we can imagine—and plan for—a full future.
Emerging Diseases and Conservation: One World-One Health
Dr. Robert A. Cook, director of WCS’s Living Institutions, and Dr. William Karesh, director of WCS's Wildlife Health Sciences, underscore the need for a more holistic approach to protecting the health of humans, domestic animals, and wildlife as global challenges—such as climate change and population growth—alter our environment.
Conservation as Diplomacy
Dr. Steven E. Sanderson, President and CEO of WCS, explains why wildlife biologists brave Iran, Afghanistan, and Myanmar to help preserve rare species, and how they are creating a new category of diplomacy.
Little Is Big, Many Is One: Zoonoses in the Twenty-first Century
David Quammen, one of America's top nature authors, stitches together the links between isolated outbreaks of diseases that pass between wildlife and humans and the overall ecosystem disruption that might trigger them.
Conservation and Human Displacement
Volume Editor Eva Fearn, Kent H. Redford, and Arun Agrawal of the University of Michigan explain how the creation of some protected areas has forced human communities to move, and analyze how conservation strategies can address their rights.
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